All Things Art & Photography
Here is some great news. My Light Projections Series made the final 3 in the very prestigious Word Photography Awards 2014 which were announced today! (The 30 world finalists are flown to the London Awards Ceremony all expenses paid to compete for the final prizes).
Online Magazine link that features all the finalists
Thomas Brummett is a world photography awards 2014 Finalist
Roger Ballen is the William Faulkner of image-makers. His work is in the collections of over 20 museums yet the general public does not know much about him. He still shoots film. He mines the areas between sculpture and photography, darkness and the light. His photos are some of the richest in all of art. He makes his work in places in South Africa where the police will not go near; Hell on earth kind of places. His disturbing work grabs the back of your brain and won’t let go. Right now he is everywhere. Check out why he has blown the doors off the art and photo world. Maybe the most powerful work ever done by any artist. To understand the environments he frequents, and thus his pictures, you have to see the video above first…
“Photography is like going into the mineshaft”
“What I am doing is about visual relationships not stories…”
On his project: Aslyum for the Birds:
Asylum has two main meanings in the English language; the first is a place where insanity prevails and the second describes a place of refuge. In some ways those are very opposing meanings. In ‘Asylum of the Birds’, the asylum is place where animals and people live together away from the outside world. It’s a very claustrophobic, surreal and strange place yet, at the same time, what’s going on in this place is abnormal – it comes from deeper levels of the subconscious, but I don’t equate those deeper levels with insanity.
via January 2014 / Peggy Sue Amison in conversation with Roger Ballen
Excerpt from his talk at the George Eastman House: The Shadow Chamber
The Photographs of Roger Ballen
According to this NY Times article on Facebook privacy changes :
If you follow this link in the article it will take you to the page where you can opt out of Facebook using your photos for their advertising profits. Please do this if you have not already as major corporations using your photos should PAY YOU for the rights – Dang Nab It!
This message was brought to you by the Cranky and Riled, American Photographers Association (or CRAPA for short). 😉
Don’t Let Facebook Use Your Photos For Their Advertising…
Simple fact: If he was in the film then you knew it was worth going to see. A great, sensitive and astounding artist who will be sadly missed.
Philip Seymour Hoffman: July 23, 1967 to February 2, 2014
I was lucky enough to see The Pat Metheny Group on their first tour at the Telluride Jazz Festival. Most in the crowd had never heard of the trio or their now legendary landmark first album – which basically rewrote the book on jazz fusion. They looked like young college kids but played with such inexplicable genius. The sound of course was completely new at the time and the audience was, in a word, awestruck. Metheny’s guitar sound has been described as the wind through the trees of heaven and I will never forget the crowd leaping to their feet and the eruption of applause after their first tune. The only way I can describe it was like hearing music for the first time. The two live takes in Berlin are from the same tour that year.
Relive what the excitement was all about.
Music Break: Pat Metheny Group Live